Interoperability between opensource Layout Editors and between Hardware Language Descriptions sustains the living Fedora culture to meet Interoperability as much as possible.

Even if the targeted public might be a niche target user, if a university lab decides to switch to fedora to use the lab, there might more than 20 computers running fedora afterwards :) Let's take over the niche :-D

On 2008-01-18 FEL LiveCD shipped with YOU Magazine in ASIA

RahulSundaram and MirjamWaeckerlin pointed to You magazine current issue bundles Fedora Electronic Lab Live CD. This print magazine claims to be the only Asian print magazine dedicated to Linux and has tens of thousands of copies circulation rate. Since they also run a sister magazine called Electronics For You, they have a good interest in electronics which probably explains the choice.

Among all these, Fedora users benefit (for free) the experience of a EDA/CAD team who has working knowledge in the ASIC industry. This EDA/CAD team works closely with upstream to provide Fedora users the latest updates and enhancements brought forward.

FAQ

Why FEL is not shipping SystemC ?

There was an attempt to include SystemC. However due to a legal issue, it was put aside.

How can I install all the gEDA/gaf applications at once ?

# yum install geda\*

What are the backends supported by gnetlist (from geda-gnetlist?

The below command will list all the available backends of gnetlist.

$ gnetlist -g help

The VHDL backend of gnetlist can't be trusted when I extract the VHDL netlists from the schematics drawn by gschem.

Real logic designs are captured as Verilog or VHDL in text format, and compiled directly to programming files which are loaded into FPGAs, CPLDs, and the like. At the schematic level one just draws lots of boxes with lots of pins corresponding to the FPGA or CPLD. Therefore, using gschem to draw a logic circuit and then netlist to VHDL isn't a commonly used design flow nowadays. Instead, people just create a textual design using a text editor.

We have been in contact with Graham Petley (author of vsclib, wsclib, vxlib, vgalib and rgalib shipped with pharosc). We are working with him to make pharosc more distribution independent and to provide testing grounds. Right now, fedora users can install pharosc with the below command.

#yum install pharosc\*

I want to donate my standard cell libraries to the Fedora Project, what should I do ?

Contact ChitleshGoorah: [[MailTo(chitlesh I DONT WANT SPAM @fedoraproject DOT org)]. He will package and include it for Fedora.

Glossary

ASIC : Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

gaf : gschem and friends

VLSI : Very Large Scale Integration, about 10⁶ to 10⁷ transistors

Release Notes

With this release, the Fedora Collection entails a complete electronic laboratory setup with reliable open source design tools in order to meet one's requirements to keep one in pace with current technological race. This Electronic Laboratory can either be deployed by: